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Topic: Captcha ... on Trade Merchant (Read 2216 times)

I think the game is uncomfortable enough in calling the trade merchant but that a Captache shows up on calling multiple Trade Merchants is not really smart. What do you think will happen when a player gets suspended while spending money on the game?

Automated spending of credits is very unprobably... However, there was a new function added to the interface called "Repeat this trade". Its a one click function and its possible to click that fast enough that a CAPTCHA shows up. The idea of the CAPTCHA from my undestanding is to avoid automated parsing of galaxies so the CAPTCHA shows up at a place where it was not design for. I just report this as mistake and hand it over to the program designer to correct or keep it. I hope my feedback was a help to improve usability of the game blah blah blah...

The CAPCHA seems to pop up after about 100 merchant invocations. It is incredibly aggravating, because after 100 or so clicks, you are pretty much into mind-numbed mode and it is very easy to continue to click that "Repeat this trade" link after the CAPCHA has popped up. After you fill in the CAPCHA screen, you can't get the app to go back to the state where you can continue clickety-clicking. SO, you have to kill the browser tab, use a fleet to launch your hydro off the planet, recreate your tab, start clicking again to resume creating hydro, and recall your fleet.

Once upon a time, before BFG implemented the "Repeat this trade" link, it took about 15 seconds to do a trade. With the link, we are down to about 1 - 1.5 seconds. For us big spenders, it would be grand if BFG revisited my original proposal for the feature, which provided a means for specifying how many conversions you wanted to do. I did well over 1000 conversions today. This "dial a number" feature would have been very handy!

It comes when I click on the repeat on the repeat trade link too fast too. We know this captcha is there to prevent automation but you all should know that automation can get around this captcha. The captcha is not effective and is only hurting people that want to do massive trades.